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Ranka Primorac

Ranka Primorac has degrees from the universities of Zagreb,
Zimbabwe and Nottingham Trent. She teaches an Africana Studies
course at the London branch of New York University and has also
taught at a number of UK institutions of higher learning,
including, in recent years, Royal Holloway. Ranka has written
widely about Zimbabwean literature and culture: she is the author
of The Place of Tears: The Novel and Politics in Modern
Zimbabwe (2006) and co-editor of Versions of Zimbabwe: New
Approaches to Literature and Culture (2005) and Zimbabwe
in Crisis: The International Response and the Space of Silence
(2007). She is currently preparing edited collections on Zimbabwe’s
new diasporas and on African city textualities (both forthcoming in
2009), and is about to embark on a BA-funded research project on
contemporary Zambian writing.

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